From the Westinghouse Time Capsules to one of the oldest known, these artifacts help us to understand what the city was like in the past.
Discover some of the amazing facts you can learn on an exclusive hard hat tour of the abandoned Ellis Island Hospital!
This lost mid-century resort destination is home to memories of a former respite from city life.
Untapped New York was started in 2010 by a then student at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), where she is now a professor. We love architecture and believe there is no better place to celebrate it than NYC!
It doesn’t truly start to feel like summer in New York City until the schedules for free outdoor film
Seeking a place of silence and solitude seems like a fruitless, almost contradictory endeavor in the writhing atmosphere of New
Not far from Mission Dolores are a pair of homes considered to be the oldest in the Mission District and
It’s a curiosity that happens often in Paris, but not so often in New York: Facade-only structures and
On March 12, 1925, a delegation of Masons requested that President Calvin Coolidge lay the cornerstone for their new Masonic
It was a tough year for weather at Manhattanhenge but the sun was clearly quite the celebrity. Would it show
Photo by Benjamin Waldman For much of the twentieth-century, New Yorkers utilized their parks for active pursuits. Ball fields
Thanks to your readership and voting, four winners have been selected in the 2012 Partners in Preservation popular vote. Check
This is the second time we’ve taken an MTA substation tour with Robert W. Lobenstein, the retired General Superintendent
The first and only spy I ever met introduced himself as Richard – my flight mate on a trans-Atlantic in
Many things in New York City change, but Manhattanhenge faithfully returns every year. For those new to the Manhattanhenge phenomenon,
Ten years ago, Long Island City was nothing more than industrial neighborhood occupied by empty warehouses. The Long Island City
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